King v. Dalton

The consolidated cases were tried together under an agreement as to the salient and controlling facts. It is contended by the defendant in error Edwards, that the court was right in directing the payment of his claim ahead of that of the son of the deceased, (1) because the son paid the burial expenses as a volunteer and was not entitled to be reimbursed by the administrator therefor; and (2) that he was entitled to be paid because his claim was based on a balance due on a purchase-money mortgage for land which the deceased had purchased from him. We do not agree with the contention that the…